Analysis and numerical computation of diffraction of an optical field by a subwavelength-size aperture in a thick metallic screen by use of a volume integral equation

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1734-1746

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CONJUGATE RESIDUAL METHOD; OPTICAL FIELD; SUBWAVELENGTH SIZE APERTURE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THICK METALLIC SCREEN; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 1842586717     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001734     Document Type: Article

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